thu 10/07/2025

BBC Two

The Virtual Revolution, BBC Two

The Virtual Revolution: Dr Aleks Krotoski provides a lucid and thought-provoking overview of the internet

If I wanted to be solipsistic about this, I could say that the opening episode of The Virtual Revolution, the new BBC Two series about the changes wrought by the internet, is also the story of theartsdesk.com. It certainly felt personal at times....

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The Review Show, BBC Two

Kirsty Wark: introduced the first edition of BBC Two's The Review Show

“New programme, new set, new city,” said Kirsty Wark by way of introduction to the BBC’s new flagship culture programme, The Review Show. It replaces Newsnight Review and goes out after the current affairs programme that spawned it, but now in its...

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Horizon - The Secret Life of the Dog, BBC Two

For Horizon's fascinating investigation into the ancestral relationship between man and dog, a record-breaking number of illustrious boffins had been compressed into 60 minutes of television. We met Dr Anna Kukekova from Cornell University, who has...

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Defying Gravity, BBC Two

Ron Livingston as Maddux Donner, a man on a very long mission

In space, no-one can hear you snore. The opening two-parter of Defying Gravity introduced us, in a sluggish and tortuous manner, to the six-year mission of the spacecraft Antares, which contains eight astronauts and will visit seven planets,...

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